The 50 most influential philosophers to shape our world. From the
classical thinkers to modern economic theories, and from the
groundbreaking advances in psychology to the cutting-edge of
postmodernist theory, the Little Book of Big Ideas: Philosophy
discusses those thinkers, thoughts and ideas that have advanced
knowledge, society, and human life, and why they are important.
Whether on the rights of man or the rights of woman, the origin of
the species or the origins of morality, the existence of the Ego or
the existence of God, here are the greatest ideas from the greatest
thinkers that humankind has ever known."